This PhD thesis illustrates a research project aimed at exploring the multifaceted process of organisational knowledge creation, organisational learning and organisational change in a for- profit automotive corporation. The initial focus of the top management was on increasing the employee satisfaction, but a deep analysis of this request allowed us to design a project aimed at giving a wider contribution to the topics of organizational knowledge, learning and change. This first study illustrates a comprehensive analysis of organisational change in an intervention carried out in this company. A participatory and formative intervention is designed, based on the notion of authorship and expansive learning. Using participative qualitative methods, the top management and all the employees are actively involved in a process that leads to shape a shared object and a common goal: to devise a new management method for the company. The specific purpose of the second study is to describe how the process of the establishment of a trust and legitimacy relationship between the PhD student and the participants in the research happens and how it facilitates the co- production of knowledge in the organisation. The autoethnographic approach is used as methodological framework and five autoethnographic vignettes are presented.
Questo lavoro di tesi illustra un progetto di ricerca volto ad esplorare i processi di creazione della conoscenza, dell’apprendimento e del cambiamento organizzativo in un’azienda for profit appartenente al settore automotive. L’attenzione iniziale della committenza era focalizzata sulla possibilità di migliorare la soddisfazione dei dipendenti, ma un’analisi approfondita di questa richiesta ha permesso di progettare un intervento che contribuisse in maniera significativa alla ricerca applicata ai topic di interesse organizzativo sopra menzionati. Il primo studio illustra un’analisi estensiva dei processi di cambiamento organizzativo in questa azienda. Viene progettato e implementato un intervento di tipo formativo e partecipativo mutuando dalla letteratura i concetti di authorship e di expansive learning. Grazie all’utilizzo di metodologie qualitative, il top management e i dipendenti vengono attivamente coinvolti nell’intervento che esita nell’individuazione di un obiettivo comune a tutta l’azienda: identificare un nuovo metodo di management. Il secondo studio è invece volto a descrivere come si instauri una relazione di fiducia tra il dottorando e i partecipanti alla ricerca (la popolazione aziendale in questo caso) e come questa possa facilitare la co- produzione di conoscenza organizzativa. Viene utilizzato l’approccio autoetnografico come cornice metodologica e vengono descritte cinque vignette autoetnografiche.
CABIATI, MARTA, CREATING KNOWLEDGE AND ENHANCING CHANGE IN ORGANISATIONS: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONIST PERSPECTIVE IN A CASE STUDY, RIPAMONTI, CARLO SILVIO, POZZI, MAURA, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano:Ciclo XXIX. [doi:doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2016.06.001] [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/285940]
CREATING KNOWLEDGE AND ENHANCING CHANGE IN ORGANISATIONS: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONIST PERSPECTIVE IN A CASE STUDY
Cabiati, Marta
2017
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This PhD thesis illustrates a research project aimed at exploring the multifaceted process of organisational knowledge creation, organisational learning and organisational change in a for- profit automotive corporation. The initial focus of the top management was on increasing the employee satisfaction, but a deep analysis of this request allowed us to design a project aimed at giving a wider contribution to the topics of organizational knowledge, learning and change. This first study illustrates a comprehensive analysis of organisational change in an intervention carried out in this company. A participatory and formative intervention is designed, based on the notion of authorship and expansive learning. Using participative qualitative methods, the top management and all the employees are actively involved in a process that leads to shape a shared object and a common goal: to devise a new management method for the company. The specific purpose of the second study is to describe how the process of the establishment of a trust and legitimacy relationship between the PhD student and the participants in the research happens and how it facilitates the co- production of knowledge in the organisation. The autoethnographic approach is used as methodological framework and five autoethnographic vignettes are presented.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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